[#11612] - Joomla.com complaint - com_newsfeeds cuts links to maximum 200 characters
- Closed
- 15 Aug 2016
- Medium
- Build: master
- # 11612
Steps to reproduce the issue
Create a new com_newsfeeds feed and add a very long feed link to the link menu option during the creation. You may test with this one:
Expected result
The whole link should be saved.
Actual result
The link is shortened to maximum 200 chars and then saved.
I tested this both on the Joomla.com platform and on a separate hosting server on which I installed the latest Joomla! version - the problem was present on both.
I don't have the whole valid link. The component just cuts it down to the following 200 chars:
I simply added more characters when I opened the issue, so that you can copy and paste it and see that it is cut. The valid link is longer and I don't have it.
But as far as i can see it's not a RSS feed, so it's almost normal that it doesn't work.
Probably a limit on the field size in the database?
You may check this video - to me it looks like a Joomla! limitation/problem:
yes, i guess that it's a limit on the field.
Looks like it, says:
5link varchar(200) utf8mb4_unicode_ci
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yes, i guess that it's a limit on the field.
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In that case I see two solutions:
1) Either the limit on the field should be changed in the next version of Joomla!
2) Or the UX should be changed to show an error message to the client that the link is too long.
I prefer the 2nd way.
A check on the field to validate input could be useful.
And if we are going to limit the user to use maximum 200 chars then one should make sure that this will work with shortened URLs.
As the maximum url length is 2038 characters in IE (longer in Firefox)
there really is no logical reasoning for this to be limited to 200 is there?
I totally agree with Brian that this is a legacy limit and it should be removed - users should not be limited if there is no reason to do this.
Note the other places where you might store a url
com_redirect varchar(2048)
com_menus link varchar(1048)
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| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2016-08-15 12:49:00 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
Closed as we have a PR for testing see #11614
This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/11612.
@dkanchev i'm not sure that the above linked is a RSS feed.
I see a JSON output, not a feed.